‘Don’t use us as pawns’: Federal workers bear brunt of government shutdown

by Isaiah Steinberg | Oct 10, 2025 | Featured, Politics

WASHINGTON — Nine days into the first government shutdown since 2019, about 750,000 federal employees have been furloughed, and the Trump administration announced Friday that it has begun laying off workers. Medill News Service spoke with four federal employees at...

Climate change activist groups demand action from Biden before term ends

by Emma Richman | Nov 19, 2024 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON – Around 300 people gathered to demand climate action from the Biden administration outside the Environmental Protection Agency headquarters on Sunday, according to estimates from organizers. Protesters called on President Joe Biden to protect public lands,...

Members of congress call for expansion of American energy, but disagree on how to do it

by Davis Giangiulio | Jan 31, 2023 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress grappled with the intersection between energy and national and economic security on Tuesday along with the environmental impacts of energy expansion. In the first House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing of the 118th Congress,...

The environmental case about nothing — could be everything

by Jorja Siemons | Mar 3, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices stumbled this week when hearing arguments about the most impactful environmental case in a generation. The problem, in part, is that the case concerns nothing. “There isn’t really anything for the Supreme Court to consider,” said...

Senate panel weighs economic impacts of EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard program

by Charlotte Varnes | Feb 17, 2022 | Environment, Featured

WASHINGTON — Changes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program could lead to wide-ranging economic impacts like increased gas prices and shutdowns of small refineries, experts told lawmakers during a Senate Environment and Public Works...